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Saturday, October 31, 2015

100 Mile Month

A couple weeks ago, my friend Sean was texting about training this month, and he helpfully pointed out that I was way closer to 100 miles than I had realized.

I've literally never run 100 miles in a month! Even last year during marathon training, my highest mileage was in the 70s. At the end of September, I realized I was pretty behind in my training, and my motivation just came back full force. I was ready to suck it up and put full effort into the last few weeks before BDR.

I hit 100 on Thursday. My last run of October on Friday brought me to 106.

Hitting 100 miles has given me a lot of confidence for BDR. My paces are slower than last year, but my mileage is higher. My legs feel good...in fact, I feel the best I have in a long time.

It felt awesome to see this new trophy on Nike+, and to go back and look at my progress over the last couple months.

From DailyMile. Last November was my highest mileage to date; 79 miles including the marathon!

So, how did I celebrate this milestone? With pizza! It was all I could talk about on Thursday's run with Elizabeth; pizza may be a staple for some runners, but it's kind of a hassle to get gluten free pizza, so we don't have it often. I was definitely craving it, and it was the first thing I texted Matt post-run.

After listening to me daydream of pizza for five miles, Elizabeth checked in to make sure I'd had my reward.

Artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, and bacon!

I have to say, I'm feeling pretty good about October, and I'm looking forward to another strong month in November! There are 42 days until marathon-day, and that means a few more weeks of strong runs and then...TAPER!

The night I hit 100! Woohoo!

Now that I've done it once, I know I can do it again. It's a really empowering feeling!

What was your highest mileage month?How do you celebrate big achievements?ABK

Congrats on hitting a mega running milestone!!!! I have to tell you that everytime I log onto facebook I see in my feed that "Ali K is out on a run with Nike," and it motivates me to run! I think my highest mileage month was 211 and it happened this August. :)

CONGRATS!!! That's such a great achievement! Pizza sounds like the perfect way to celebrate! I got the gluten free pizza from Dominos once. I didn't look up their gluten-free policy before ordering (most likely I was purposefully ignoring it). The pizza was delicious but it definitely wasn't gluten free... sigh!

My highest ever mileage was 121 which I hit training for my last marathon. I haven't had a month over 100 since March, but I'm hoping to get there this month. It might be a little tricky because I have a bunch of travel coming up, but hopefully I'll be able to make time.